Q 01/05

Which Greek physician from Kos is called the "Father of Medicine"?

A) Galen of Pergamon

B) Asclepius of Epidaurus

C) Herophilus of Chalcedon

D) Hippocrates

Answer · why

D) Hippocrates

He is credited with prognosis, clinical observation and the first description of clubbed fingers.

Q 02/05

The four humours were blood, phlegm and two kinds of which fluid?

A) Lymph

B) Sweat

C) Urine

D) Bile

Answer · why

D) Bile

An excess or shortage of any one was thought to cause illness, which is why bloodletting seemed logical for two thousand years.

Q 03/05

Galen based most of his anatomy on dissecting which animals, human dissection being forbidden in Rome?

A) Domestic pigs

B) Stray dogs

C) Mountain sheep

D) Barbary apes

Answer · why

D) Barbary apes

He also encouraged students to inspect dead gladiators and bodies washed up on shore to learn human anatomy.

Q 04/05

Who compiled The Canon of Medicine, the 1025 encyclopaedia used as a European textbook into the 18th century?

A) Al-Razi (Rhazes)

B) Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

C) Al-Zahrawi

D) Ibn al-Nafis

Answer · why

B) Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

It set the standard for medicine in both medieval Europe and the Islamic world.

Q 05/05

The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest known surgical treatise on trauma, comes from which civilisation?

A) Ancient Egypt

B) Babylon

C) Ancient Greece

D) Han China

Answer · why

A) Ancient Egypt

It is named after the dealer who bought it in 1862 and may originally date from the Old Kingdom.